3. You Could Live In A Grotesquely Expensive Mansion
The mansion Tommy Vercetti 'inherits' in Vice City is arguably the best building in any GTA game. Sure, in being a homage to Tony Montana's mansion in Scarface it's completely vulgar and tasteless, but that's the whole point. It's a perfect indicator of its occupant's descent into murderous, sociopathic greed. To evolve this mechanic, a new Vice City could allow you to buy all kinds of add-ons to the home, like a security room filled entirely with cameras which would notify you when a Colombian drug cartel army is invading your home, and a Bengal Tiger chained up in your garden like a guard dog. Hell, why not let you build a moat filled with sharks while we're at it (I'm sure Tony Montana would've done this as well if his mind wasn't frazzled from all that coke). In the 80s, gangsters in both films and real life were way more showy than the underground organisations of today. Setting the next GTA in Vice City would give Rockstar license to make the most of 80s ostentatiousness, and allow you to build the home of your avaricious, cocaine-fuelled nightmares.
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